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1* {{Anvilicious}}: The end of the episode, as delivered by Lieutenant Uhura.
2* GeniusBonus: Flavius Maximus isn't many letters away from a similarly-named Earth Roman Empire commander, who won much advantage by knowing when ''not'' to fight.
3* HilariousInHindsight:
4** The gladiatorial games as they're presented here seem a lot like modern reality game shows like ''Series/DancingWithTheStars'' and ''Series/AmericanIdol''. Only with decapitations.
5** For electronic music fans, the fact the car in the magazine ad is called the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roland_Jupiter-8 Jupiter 8]] can also qualify as a case of this trope.
6** Kirk is warned this isn't an academy training test, long before anyone wrote him cheating the Kobayashi Maru because he's bad with failure.
7* HoYay: [=McCoy=] accuses Spock of being afraid of his own emotions, which leads to this exchange:
8-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' Why, you wouldn't know what to do with a genuine warm, decent feeling.
9-->'''Spock:''' Really, doctor?
10-->'''[=McCoy=]:''' ''(beat)'' I know. I'm worried about Jim, too.

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